Police drop G4S privatisation plan

Surrey Police Authority announced the decision hours after Theresa May said that forces should not be discouraged from working with G4S despite the fiasco. The Home Secretary ruled out a full-scale review of government contracts with the company.

It emerged yesterday that two reports by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary warned of shortfalls in numbers and training of Olympic guards. The reports, in September last year and January, raised concerns over numbers but Dame Helen Ghosh, Permanent Secretary at the Home Office, said that the department had monitored the risk, and that G4S was to blame for not providing enough guards.